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...nine when I saw the movie in 1953; what could a kid know? This one thought, and thinks, that "Dr. T." is a bold and spooky parable of persecution and revolution. What's bold? Well, for a start, the conception of the main characters. Except for young Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig, who a few years later became Lassie's best friend on TV), they are weak or venal. Dr. Terwilliker (the sublimely snide Hans Conried) is a musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy...
...guess "Dr. T." left out some prime Geisel, but there's more of it here, in more concentrated form, than anywhere else. In one scene Dr. T. takes Bart and Zabladowski on a tour of his dungeons, where various musicians are being tortured. "The lovely rumbling sound you hear" BOOM! BOOM! - "is one of my favorite prisoners. He was a bass drummer in an orchestra I once conducted. Do you know the part in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony where the drummer is supposed to go 'ah-boom-boom-boom Boom'? Well, this stupid lout always went 'ah-boom-boom-boom...
...fantasy than a nightmare - with horrible heights, long chases, the loss of a mother's love - the movie ends in anarchy: Dr. T.'s musical plan is foiled, the kids run amok and a Rube Goldberg-style A bomb blows the whole place up. (By now Bart Collins has outdone Bart Simpson on the destructo scale.) Not since Jean Vigo's "Zero de Conduite" have filmmakers so fervently called for a revolt of the underage. Even the laconic Zabladowski falls under Bart's revolutionary spell. "People should always believe in kids," he says sagely. "They should even believe their lies...
...Bart Simpson would say, that's funny for so many reasons. Only a few weeks ago, movie insiders were confidently predicting that Gibson would lose his hairshirt over this movie-the $30 million of his own money it took to produce, plus another bundle for prints and advertising. Now that the film has registered the highest opening-day midweek gross of any non-sequel in North American box office history, Gibson's supposed to be a panderer, pimping Christ's suffering to audiences who didn't realize they needed to see their personal Redeemer get scourged for the longer part...
...It’s still the best public transportation ever,” said Brenden S. Millstein ’06, who said he paid $5 to use the BART subway system in San Francisco earlier in the morning to get to the airport to return to Boston...